SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING A WEARABLE MEDICAL MONITORING AND/OR TREATMENT DEVICE

• US 20130231711A1
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Zoll Medical Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Kaib, Thomas E.
• Granted Patent: US 9,878,171 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/5
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3925 Monitoring; Protecting
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3931 Protecting, e.g. back-up systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/40 for the management of medical equipment or devices, e.g. scheduling maintenance or upgrades
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A system including an ambulatory medical treatment device is provided. The ambulatory medical treatment device includes a memory, a treatment component configured to treat a patient, at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component, a user interface component, and a system interface component. The user interface component is configured to receive an update session request and to generate the update session identifier responsive to receiving the request. The system interface component is configured to receive an encoded request including an identifier of an update session and device update information, to decode the encoded request to generate a decoded request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session, to validate the decoded request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session, and to apply the device update information to the ambulatory medical treatment device.

Claims

1. A system comprising an ambulatory medical treatment device including:

a memory;

a treatment component configured to treat a patient;

at least one processor coupled to the memory and the treatment component;

a user interface component executed by the at least one processor and configured to receive an update session request and to generate the update session identifier responsive to receiving the request; and

a system interface component executed by the at least one processor and configured to receive an encoded request including an identifier of an update session and device update information, to decode the encoded request to generate a decoded request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session, to validate the decoded request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session, and to apply the device update information to the ambulatory medical treatment device.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the device update information includes information descriptive of at least one of a treatment protocol to be executed by the ambulatory medical treatment device using the treatment component and device settings to be applied to the ambulatory medical treatment device.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system interface component is configured to decode the encoded request by decrypting the encoded request.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the system interface component is further configured to:

detect at least one of success and failure of the update session; and

rollback any device update information applied in response to failure of the update session.

5. The system according to claim 4, further comprising a display coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the user interface component is further configured to display the update session identifier on the display and display an indication of at least one of success and failure of the update session on the display.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the memory stores a device identifier that uniquely identifies the ambulatory medical treatment device, the encoded request further includes an identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device, and the system interface component is configured to further validate the decoded request by determining that the device identifier matches the identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the memory stores a patient identifier uniquely identifying the patient assigned to the ambulatory medical treatment device, the encoded request further includes an identifier of the patient, and the system interface component is configured to further validate the decoded request by determining that the patient identifier matches the identifier of the patient.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the patient identifier and the identifier of the patient include biometric identifiers.

9. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a computer system configured to:

receive an authorization request;

verifying the authorization request;

establish, in response to verifying the authorization request, a secure communication channel with the ambulatory medical treatment device; and

transmit the update session request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

10. The system according to claim 9, wherein the computer system is further configured to:

receive an authentication request including the identifier of the update session;

generate the decoded request;

encode the decoded request to generate the encoded request; and

transmit the encoded request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

11. A computer system comprising:

a memory storing ambulatory medical treatment device update information;

at least one processor coupled to the memory; and

a support interface component executed by the at least one processor and configured to receive an authorization request, to verify the authorization request, to establish a secure communication channel with an ambulatory treatment device in response to the authorization request, to receive an authentication request including an identifier of an update session, to generate a request including the device update information and the identifier of the update session, to encode the request to generate an encoded request, and to transmit the encoded request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the support interface component is configured to encode the request by encrypting the request.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein the device update information includes information descriptive of at least one of a treatment protocol to be executed by the ambulatory medical treatment device and device settings to be applied to the ambulatory medical treatment device.

14. The system according to claim 11, wherein the memory further stores a device identifier that uniquely identifies the ambulatory medical treatment device and the request further includes the device identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device.

15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the memory further stores a patient identifier that uniquely identifies the patient assigned to the ambulatory medical treatment device and the request further includes the patient identifier.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the patient identifier includes a biometric identifier that is unique to the patient.

17. A method executed using an ambulatory medical treatment device, the method comprising:

receiving an update session request;

generating, responsive to receiving the request, the update session identifier;

receiving an encoded request including an identifier of an update session and device update information;

decoding the encoded request to generate a decoded request including the identifier of the update session and the device update information;

validating the decoded request by determining that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session; and

applying the device update information to the ambulatory medical treatment device in response to validating that the update session identifier matches the identifier of the update session.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the ambulatory medical treatment device includes a display and the method further comprises displaying the update session identifier on the display.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the encoded request further includes at least one of an identifier uniquely identifying the ambulatory medical treatment device and an identifier uniquely identifying a patient assigned to the ambulatory medical treatment device and validating the decoded request includes at least one of:

determining that a device identifier stored on the ambulatory medical treatment device matches the identifier of the ambulatory medical treatment device included in the encoded request; and

determining that a patient identifier stored on the ambulatory treatment device matches the identifier of the patient-included in the encoded request.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein determining that the patient identifier stored on the ambulatory medical treatment device matches the identifier of the patient included in the encoded request includes comparing biometric identifiers.

21. The method according to claim 18, further comprising:

receiving, by a computer system, a authorization request;

verifying the authorization request;

establishing, in response to verifying the authorization request, a secure communication channel with the ambulatory medical treatment device;

transmitting the update session request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel;

receiving an authentication request including the identifier of the update session;

generating the decoded request;

encoding the decoded request to generate the encoded request; and

transmitting the encoded request to the ambulatory medical treatment device via the secure communication channel.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein support personnel instruct a patient to enter the request to generate an update session identifier and the support personnel enter the request to initiate the update session.